How community members can help fulfill wish lists of our schools

Clark County School District (CCSD) has a convenient, interactive online tool that matches donors with schools that are in need of educational items and supplies.

Here is how the School-Community Partnership Program’s Support a School initiative works:

With help from CCSD program ambassadors who lead and teach in the schools, campuses create wish lists of items to support educational programs. The items requested include commonly used items, such as pencils, pens, paper and glue sticks. The lists also include student-centered items like earbuds and backpacks. Some of the more unique items, such as a pasta maker machine for a career and technical academy, for example, are targeted to specific programs and projects.

Potential donors can simply click on the Support a School program web page, and see what an individual school is requesting. There also is a handy search tool. So, if the donor has a particular item that he/she wishes to donate, they simply type in the item(s) and a list of schools will be displayed that need those supplies.

“People often call our office asking for simple ways to support our schools,” said Cheryl Wagner, the Support a School program coordinator. “The Support a School program provides that with an easy process to select schools and items online.”

Wagner said the idea behind the program is that sometimes schools will have needs beyond the day-to-day budgeted supplies and there may be individuals or companies who have the items on hand or could readily obtain the items for the schools.

“An office may be reorganizing and may have a supply of hardly used binders that some of our schools would love to have for their students,” Wagner said. “Or, as recently happened, a business wanted to help with new needs brought on by the pandemic and so they purchased earbuds for several schools requesting them via their Support a School list.”  

If you have other questions about the program or want to support schools in other ways, contact CCSD’s School-Community Partnership Program at 702-799-6560 or send an email to partnership@nv.ccsd.net.